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Saturday, October 8, 2011

It is nice to be loved. I make my second Clinton "Enemies List."

"He wrote WHAT?!?"

I have long resembled Kurt Hofmann's dictum, "It is better to be despised by the despicable than admired by the admirable." I am proud to say that I have been on the White House Enemies List of three consecutive presidents. And now, like a old campaigner getting another battle star, it is rumored that I have made a second Clinton enemies list.

A source familiar with the inner workings of the command deck at Foggy Bottom reports that my "In at the beginning" series (here and here) has excited some interest in the mid-level permanent bureaucracy there and that links have been forwarded to the Secretary of State's office.

"So?" I said. "And?"

"They don't like where you're going with this."

"Outstanding," I replied.

"SECSTATE doesn't like it."

"REALLY? She reads my stuff?"

"She read your latest."

"All the shit going on all around the world and she's worried about me? I don't believe it."

"Believe it."

"And she doesn't like it?"

"She doesn't like where you're going, is what I hear. She doesn't like the attention about Fast & Furious."

It'll be a 10:1 ratio, Mike.For every one they want to try to take, there will 10 of them fall.That I will promise you. That I will guarantee. That I will stake my reputation on. (not that it's much of a rep, but it's something)

Damn! Mike, you HAVE arrived. And in style, too. Congratulations! Mazol tov!And keep up the good work.They started it all, you'll finish it all.And if you "disappear", the Hundred Heads rule will apply. It's a target-rich environment out there."The tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants from time to time."

Does Clinton go under the Barry Bus or does Barry go under the Clinton Bus?

Maybe another outcome is about to play out. Maybe a game of chicken is played and the two buses hit head on because neither is willing to take responsibility for their own action, each trying to pin it all on the other.

You might well be in deep water but the small boat of truth you are riding in keeps right on floating, while the weight of lies sinks, eventually, all those who try to swim with it hanging around their necks.

Well, if not Mordor on the Potomac's "kill list", perhaps the mob's. When I lived in AR back in the 80s, stories about the Clintons' involvement with the Dixie Mafia were legion. Those stories received corroboration in Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's 1997 book, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. There's no reason to believe their relationship with the criminal underworld was ever terminated.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.